Sentence examples for modelling of language from inspiring English sources

In the functional modelling of language, form does not disappear as sometimes implied in setting a binary choice between form and function; nor need it be notional (if notional means intuitive).

"Good authors act as models of language for us," she said, her face glowing with excitement.

But Duolingo, as an app, seems committed to a naturalistic, or organic model of language learning.

Many of the results of this work were controversial and inconclusive, and psycholinguistics has been turning increasingly to other functionally related and socially oriented models of language structure.

Later work cast doubt on these findings, and most psycholinguists are now more cautious about using grammars produced by linguists as models of language processing.

Chomsky's view of language evolution, based on his word-centric, rule-driven generative grammar model of language can't explain some of the observable properties of idiom use.

Of a much less controversial nature is the extensive and fruitful use of recursive function theory and related areas of logic in formal grammars and in the formal models of language users.

Dr. Don Ringe, a linguist at the University of Pennsylvania who has taken a particular interest in computer modeling of language, said that Dr. Gray's approach was worth pursuing but that glottochronology, the traditional method of dating languages, had "failed to live up to its promise so often that convincing linguists there is anything there is an uphill battle".

Empirical methods in the field of natural language processing (NLP) are usually based on a probabilistic model of language.

Figure 16 A stratified supervenient model of language and of social context.

Chapter 11 is an important contribution by Robin Fawcett within the Cardiff SFL model of language.